Packing receptacle



May 10,

c. E. MANDERBACH PACKING RECEPTACLE Filed April 22, 1925 Jam Patented May 10, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCiE'.

CHARLES E. MAN DERBACH, OF AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE B. F. GOODRICH COM- PANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

, PACKING RECEPTACLE.

Application filed April 22, 1925.. Serial No. 24,956.

This invention relates to. boxes for packing articles such as rubber hot-water bottles, fountain syringes, or so-called combination bottles adapted for use as syringes. It is common to provide such a box with one or more partitions dividing its interior into compartments adaptedrespectively for the reception of the body of the article and the accessories, such as nozzles.

The chief object of yinvention is to provide an improved and stronger construction of the partitionin boxes of'the character described,'m'ore particularly of a partition apertured to accommodate a projection on the bottle, whereby the use of a boxv of shorter length is made possible and a compact package obtained.- Another and distinct object is to provide a partition having means for anchoring said projection to prevent displacement of the bottle durmg shipment and handling of the package.

Of the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 1s a plan view of one end of a box containing a hot-water bottle and provided with a parf tition constructed according to my invention. b

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the partition-forming blank.

In the drawings, is a rubber hot-water bottle formed with the usual tab or projection 11 on that edge which is lowermost when the bottle is being filled and uppermost when it is being used as a fountain syringe, said tab having an aperture 12. 13 is the box, preferaby formed of pasteboard and provided with a bottom wall 14 and side walls 15, 16, the wall 16 being the side wall at one end of the box. Near that end is located the partition 17, dividing the interior into a large compartment 18 for receiving the body of the bottle 10, and a small compartment 19 for containing the accessories, such as nozzles and the combination stopper.

The partition 17 is formed of a sheet 20 of cardboard shown in Fig. 3, scored along three parallel lines 21, 22, 23 to divide it into four sections, of which the two middle sections 24 and 25 constitute the two sides of the partition proper and the two end sections 26 and 27 constitute base-forming extensions of said sides, the extension 26 being the longer. The sheet 20 is formed with an aperture 28 located partly in each of the sections24 a-nd 26, and with another aperture 29 formed mainly in the section 25 but having a smallv extension in the section either, side thereof.

The partition-forming sheet 20 is located in the box with the longerbase-forming extension. 26 bentsubstantially at right angles to the side 24 of the partition and lying parallel with and against the bottom wall 14 of the box, the shorter base-forming 1 each other and to the bottom wall of the box.

The partition proper is formed by the sections 24, 25 of thescored sheet folded in V shape and spread apart at the base. That part of the aperture 28 which lies in the section 24 constitutes a holewhich registers with the hole 29 in section25, said holes re ceiving' the tab 11 of the water bottle. The tongue 30 lies substantially in the hole 29 and its projection 32 enters the aperture 12 in the bottle tab and anchors said tab, the shoulders 33 on the tongue overlying the tab and holding it down in position.

In this manner the hot-water bottle 10 is secured in the box 13 so that it cannot readily become displaced in shipping and handling but in such manner that it can easily be detached when desired. The sheet 20, constructed and arranged as described, forms a strong and efficient partition for the purpose designated andone which can be ornamented by striping or otherwise on its exposed surfaces with a paper facing applied on one side only of said sheet.

The described embodiment may be variously modified within the scope of the claims, and it is obvious that the tongue 30 may be omitted where it is not desired to utilize-its functions, as in a box for holding a fountain syringe having an outlet pro- I claim:

1. In a receptacle package, the combination of a box, a flat receptacle mounted therein and having a projection at one end, and a transverse partition near one end of the box, dividing the space occupied by said receptacle into large and small compartments, said partition comprising a folded piece of material apertnred to receive said projection and having its tWo marginal portions secured to the bottom of the box.

In a receptacle package, the conibina tion of a box, a flat receptacle mounted therein and having an apertured tab at one end, a transverse partition in the box comprising a folded piece of niat'ei'ial apertured to receive said tab, and means engaging the Walls of the aperture in the tab for anchoring the tab in fixed relation to the apertures of the partition.

3. A packing box having a partition formed by a piece of material folded V- shaped, the sides of which are provided with base-forming extensions secured to each other and to the bottom of the box, one of said extensions lying between the other and the box bottom.

4. A packing box comprising bottom and side walls and having near one end a partition formed by a sheet of material folded V-shaped and provided with long and short base forming extensions, the former under-' lying the latter and the edges 01' the extensions substantially abutting the end Wall of the box, and a common riveting means securing the base-forming extensions to ea'ch other and to the bottom all of the box.

5. A packing box having partition formed with a hole for the reception of an apertiire'd projection on an article contained in the box, said partition being provided with an anchoring member adapted to enter the aperture in said projection.

6. A packing box having a partition formed by a folded sheet of material apertured to receive a projection formed 011 an article contained in the box, one side of said partition being provided with an anchoring member forengagement with said projection.

7 A packing box having a partition near one end dividing its interior into a main compartment for the reception of an article such as a hot-Water bottle and auxiliary compartment to hold the accessories, said partition being formed with a hole to receive the tab of the bottle and provided With an integral anchoring tongue in said hole to enter the aperture in'the' tab.

8. A packing box according to claim 9 in which the tongue has an anchoring projection, and shoulders on either side thereof for holding the tab down in proper position.

9. A packing box having a: partition near one end dividing. its interior into large and small compartments and formed by a folded sheet of material secured to the bottom Wall of the box, the sides of said partition having registering holesfor the passage of thetab on ahotn'atei' bottle" and the side toward the smaller compartment being provided with an integral tongue for anchoring said tab.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of April, 1925.

CHARLES E. MANDERBACH. 

